# Ian Botham launches charity chocolates

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/09/01/ian-botham-launches-charity-chocolates/
- Published: 2008-09-01T14:43:12+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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A new range of chocolates has been produced in support of Sir Ian Botham’s 2008 
charity walk and are available for a suggested donation of £1, with all profits 
going to Leukaemia Research.

Forty golden tickets have been hideen in some of the packs of the limited edition
chocolates, in the style of Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Those
who find them will win a chance to meet and walk with Bowtham on one of the nine
days of the walk.

The chocolates are made by Yorkshire chocolatiers Whitakers and will be available
in Wickes stores nationwide. Marks & Spencer, one of this year’s sponsors, will 
also be selling the treats in each of the nine M&S stores where Sir Ian will begin
his walks this October.

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The former cricketer’s 12th charity walk starts in Taunton where he started his 
cricket career and the place he first met youngsters with leukaemia who inspired
him to start his fundraising walks.

From there he will walk in Windsor, Tunbridge Wells, Bury St Edmunds, Stratford-
Upon-Avon, Llandudno, Harrogate, Milngavie (near Glasgow), and ending in Durham 
on 18 October.

www.bothamwalk.com

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